I have seen where some have put in some decent quality gems into the meta sockets. Do you get the bonuses from the gems you place inside the meta socket or just the meta socket bonus when requirements are fulfilled? If you dont wouldnt it be better to just use cheap vendor bought gems for the meta sockets?

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The text on the meta gem is a requirement for gems you have on other pieces of gear. So, for example, for the Terokkar Forest PvP gem, you need to have 2 red gems and 1 yellow gem socketed somewhere else on armor that you're wearing for the meta gem to have any effect. (You do get the socket bonus regardless.)

You can use any gem which is partially one color to fulfill a requirement as if it were that color, so for the Terokkar PvP gem you can use one orange and one red, or two red and one green, or one red, one purple, and one yellow, and so on.

The meta gem itself doesn't eat a certain number of gems.

edit: Beat you, Tseric, although I think I got the example backwards.

which is kind of crap cause the 5% half speed next spell gem requires more blue than yellow gems, when for a mage i quite like the orange (ie yellow and red socket) +spell crit and +spell damage ones. there are purple (red and blue socket) ones with +sta and +spell damage, but i loves my crits. So i get loaded up with yellow gems cause i want to be able to do some more crittage, its sneaky blizzard, making me have to take crit away to half cast spells.

also anyone wearing this meta gem and had it proc and quagmirrans eye proc? i'd like to know if they stack cause that would be sweet.

its like 83% speed up of spells for a spell, cause quagmirrans is basically 6 seconds on heroism/ whatever horde one is...bloodlust.

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The metagem bonus takes all of your equipped gems into account when filling the requirement.

If the meta-gem requires two yellow and one red gem, those three gems must be socketed somewhere on your gear.

Yes, cheap, vendor-bought gems will work for the bonus.

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Do you need three gems, or do you need for example one orange gem and one yellow gem? Because I can't see how I'm going to get 15 gems into my gear to activate something like Brutal Earthstorm Diamond.

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Do you need three gems, or do you need for example one orange gem and one yellow gem? Because I can't see how I'm going to get 15 gems into my gear to activate something like Brutal Earthstorm Diamond.

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well....when all 6 pieces that you can wear have 3-4 slots, thats about 20 or so gem slots.

I was hoping part of the JC crafting would be the ability to add sockets to items, for a huge cost but, apparently not.

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Do you need three gems, or do you need for example one orange gem and one yellow gem? Because I can't see how I'm going to get 15 gems into my gear to activate something like Brutal Earthstorm Diamond.

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If you have a purple gem in one of your sockets, does that count as both a red and a blue gem? Honest question.

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If you have a purple gem in one of your sockets, does that count as both a red and a blue gem? Honest question.

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Yes.

any gem that has 2 colors counts as both.

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If you have a purple gem in one of your sockets, does that count as both a red and a blue gem? Honest question.

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Yes. So if you ever want that brutal earthstorm to work, you had better learn to like orange, green, and purple.

Just out of curiosity, then if I have a prismatic sphere in a slot, does it count as one gem of each color?

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Just out of curiosity, then if I have a prismatic sphere in a slot, does it count as one gem of each color?

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Thats a great question.

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Just out of curiosity, then if I have a prismatic sphere in a slot, does it count as one gem of each color?

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Yes.

On a related note, why can't you put non-meta gems into the meta socket? I can put a blue gem in a yellow slot. What's the deal?

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The metagem bonus takes all of your equipped gems into account when filling the requirement.

If the meta-gem requires two yellow and one red gem, those three gems must be socketed somewhere on your gear.

Yes, cheap, vendor-bought gems will work for the bonus.

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Please confirm this.

I was told that you could fulfill the above requirements with TWO gems. 1 orange, and 1 yellow. In other words, the orange counts as both red AND Yellow.

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The metagem bonus takes all of your equipped gems into account when filling the requirement.

If the meta-gem requires two yellow and one red gem, those three gems must be socketed somewhere on your gear.

Yes, cheap, vendor-bought gems will work for the bonus.

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Thank god you resolved another question that could easily be answered in orgrimmar/ironforge/shattrath general/trade chat, we all know no one cares about possible future patch additions and response to feedback about terrible itemization and endgame content.

Fyi, multi-colored gems (ones that work for multiple sockets, count as 1 of any or all of the color gems they are able to represent, regardless of what socket they are put in. This includes orange/purple/green gems as well as prismatic ones such as the all resist ones from enchanting.

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Please confirm this.

I was told that you could fulfill the above requirements with TWO gems. 1 orange, and 1 yellow. In other words, the orange counts as both red AND Yellow.

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I'm the guild socket rocket, and usually I need to sit down and build out your set everytime a new helm drops.

so to clear up confusion;

Meta Socket Gems: Looks at all your currently equipped socketed gear and the gems you have in that gear. Counts everytime it see's the word red/yellow/blue.

1. "Fits a red socket" counts as 1 red
2. "Fits a red or yellow socket" counts as 1 red 1 yellow
3. "Fits a blue and yellow socket" counts as 1 blue 1 yellow

Meta gems that just say "required x <color> gems" are the easiest to use. Just stack multicolor gems until you meet the requirements.
Meta gems that say "requires more X then Y" are more work. You need to pay attention to which multi-color gems your using, For example if you want a meta that says "required more blue gems then yellow" and you use a yellow/blue gem that counts itself out. If you use one that is red/blue then you get the blue point.